POINT OF VIEW

1. POINT OF VIEW Prepare to be schooled by Ms. Hanzlick!!

2. You probably think that point of view means your opinion…. (e.g. What’s your point of view on the issue of abortion?)

3. …but in English class, this is WRONG.

4. In English class, point of view refers to the narrator’s relation to the story he’s telling. • The narrator could be part of the story, for example, or not part of the story. • There’s actually THREE different points of view; if someone asks you about the p.o.v. of a story, your response should be 1st,2nd, or 3rd. • They are easy to distinguish if you know which pronouns to look for as clues.

5. Handy Dandy PRONOUN CHART

6. What P.O.V. are these sentences? You woke up this morning. You heard your alarm go off. You hit the snooze button. You ended up being late to work.

7. What P.O.V. are these sentences? My mother was born in 1948 in Atlanta, Ga. She grew up in Buckheadand went to a public school in APS. Like me, she became a teacher. We are very close.

8. What P.O.V. are these sentences? There is a man standing in the shadow of a tree outside the window. He’s spying on a woman who lives in the first floor apartment. She wronged him once, and know he will wrong her.

9. What P.O.V. are these sentences? I love trying new and exotic foods from around the world. I have traveled to many different countries and enjoyed the unique cuisine they have to offer.

10. ASSIGNMENT: • Both myths we’ve read this week were written in 3rd person. • Choose a character from one of the myths and rewrite it in 1st person point of view. • (E.g. Instead of saying, “In the beginning, there was only Chaos,” you would write, “In the beginning, there was only me.”